The promise and peril of Joe Biden's front-runner campaign
by Seema Mehta and Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times
Aug 26, 2019
5 minutes
CROYDON, N.H. - Joe Biden was whipping through his stump speech at a rustic lakeside campground here when he stumbled over the location of where exactly he spoke a few hours earlier at nearby Dartmouth College.
"I want to be clear, I'm not going nuts," Biden told supporters perched on camp chairs on the shore of Loon Lake as the sun sank behind him, turning the sky sherbet shades of purple and pink. "I'm not sure whether it was the medical school or where the hell I spoke. But it was on the campus."
It was a minuscule misstatement. But Biden's irritation - he pointedly looked at the media covering the event as he corrected himself - was clear.
The former vice president is the
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